[LinuxBIOS] iasl path config option.

[ron minnich]

Isn't this what PATH shell variables are for? The problem is that we have a
hard-coded path, /usr/sbin/iasl, not that we need a config variable for the
path. What should happen is that the hard-coded path should be replaced with
a command name.

I don't think we should add a new variable for something that should be in
the user's path.  I don't think we need this patch.

thanks

ron

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich  [060930 08:56]:
> Isn't this what PATH shell variables are for? The problem is that we have a
> hard-coded path, /usr/sbin/iasl, not that we need a config variable for the
> path. What should happen is that the hard-coded path should be replaced with a
> command name.

I think so, too. It is also a purely build environment related thing,
which is imho not really a "configuration issue" but an "environment
issue"
> I don't think we should add a new variable for something that should be in the
> user's path.  I don't think we need this patch.

Which distributions do pack iasl to /usr/sbin btw? I know SUSE does.
Though I do not understand why. It is a development tool, and making
that available to root's default path sounds wrong, nobody ought to 
develop as root.

Stefan

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:22:37AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Isn't this what PATH shell variables are for? The problem is that we have a
> > hard-coded path, /usr/sbin/iasl, not that we need a config variable for the
> > path. What should happen is that the hard-coded path should be replaced with a
> > command name.
>
> I think so, too. It is also a purely build environment related thing,
> which is imho not really a "configuration issue" but an "environment
> issue"

Sounds good. Updated patch attached.

Uwe.